Reports: Warriors Cooling on Monta Trade?

Warriors Coach Mark Jackson beamed over Ellis in the press conference, and owner Joe Lacob called most of the reports on Ellis “fabrications” from unknown peoples “with an agenda.” The San Jose Mercury News has more: “I don’t think he will be. I mean, you want me to give odds now? There’s a tremendous amount of speculation in the press, and I can’t believe where all this is coming from… because the stories are completely fabricated, by you or whoever. I don’t know who’s fabricating them. They’re fabrications, complete and utter. All these teams that supposedly have talked to us. It’s not true. It’s just not true. I’m not saying we haven’t had any discussions, we have. But it’s nothing like what’s being reported. We all really like Monta Ellis a lot. We think he’s a great player. The question will be, like with every other player on the team–is there someone we think makes more sense, that could be better, make us a better team?”